Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:25:40 +0000 From: tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware assisted video decoding on Radeon KMS driver? Message-ID: <b19c3711-7e02-89af-5586-06e97b00a67a@zyxst.net> In-Reply-To: <036dbe8b-0366-9b28-076c-40c21645b313@nomadlogic.org> References: <20180216001242.0ee00dc2@rebel> <036dbe8b-0366-9b28-076c-40c21645b313@nomadlogic.org>
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On 16/02/2018 17:15, Pete Wright wrote: > > > On 02/15/2018 18:12, ralph wrote: >> I have an AMD C-70 APU with a Radeon HD 7290 GPU, which seems to be a >> 6290 clone with an UVD3 video decoding chip. It's been years and this >> feature has yet to be implemented. Or is it supposed to work with the >> KMS driver? Everything else seems to work perfectly for me (most of the >> time, sometimes starting X just hangs and sometimes it's not >> accelerated until I reboot). >> >> If it still hasn't been implemented, then why? Is anyone working on it? >> Any hope for the near future? I'd love to help with whatever I can. > > I'm not %100 about that specific feature, but there is quite a bit of > work happening with the drm-next-kmod port/pkg. currently it only works > on CURRENT systems, but it is pretty closely in sync with the Linux's > Intel GPU support. There is also work happening on the radeonGPU front > in this package to bring it more closely in sync with what Linux already > supports but we need more testers on that end so I can't speak > specifically if it addresses the issue you are running into. > > so, if you are OK running CURRENT on your system you can simply install > this package: > > $ sudo pkg install drm-next-kmod > > And after installing X and so forth this hopefully will just work. On my > Intel systems I allow Xorg to autodetect its configuration which results > in the "modesetting" graphics driver being used which has support for > hardware acceleration. > > I know this doesn't answer your specific question but hopefully it's > helpful. Hi, I have one of these as well. Didn't know if it was accelerated or not, used the radeonkms driver. It ran with 11-1 stable for a while, nice n sharp screen. What made me install linux mint was the fact that I couldn't dim the screen on freebsd. It was stuck at 100%. cpufreq couldn't work with the chip. These two things were a bit of a dealbreaker for me with this netbook. That was with 11-stable of a while ago now. I'll give 12-current and that new drm-next-kmod a spin. My previous dmesg on freebsd and linux are at https://www.zyxst.net/txt/amd-c70-netbook/ -- J.
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